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 * Copyright 2011-2012 Kevin Seim
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package org.beanio.internal.parser;

/**
 * A <tt>RecordFormat</tt> provides format specific processing for a {@link Record} parser.
 * 
 * <p>Implementations of this interface must be thread-safe.
 * 
 * @author Kevin Seim
 * @since 2.0
 */
public interface RecordFormat {

    /**
     * Returns whether the record meets configured matching criteria
     * during unmarshalling.
     * @param context the {@link UnmarshallingContext}
     * @return true if the record meets all matching criteria, false otherwise
     * @since 2.0.3
     */
    public boolean matches(UnmarshallingContext context);
    
    /**
     * Validates a record during unmarshalling.
     * @param context the {@link UnmarshallingContext} to validate
     */
    public void validate(UnmarshallingContext context);
    
}
